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After the movie launch and stopping her sessions with Jug, Kaira is struggling with her mental health. She turns to negative ways of coping, but when she meets someone on the beach one night, it changes her outlook on life.
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"with a right hand placed on the / trunk feels that her heart still trembles under the new bark, / and having embraced the branches as limbs with his own arms / he gives the wood kisses, and the wood shrinks from the kisses."
- Daphne and Apollo (Ovid's Metamorphoses)
After a decade (more or less) abandoned in Pandora's Vault, completely alone, Dream escapes with the help of a god and a demon, hellbent on getting revenge on his server for what they did to him. But things are far from simple, as he barters with both them and his own broken body for more time alive -- and only get harder when he calls in a favor with an old friend.
Because his Warden is hunting him.
Only one question remains: how long can he keep this up?
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It’s such a pity, the nurses tell his mother as they hand him over for the first time. Such a pity. His wings are so pretty.
They are pretty — shimmering in the hospital’s artificial lighting, each feather is the kind of iridescent you only ever see in beetle shells or oil-slicked puddles. As a little boy, Jacob would hold them in his lap the best he could, brushing them gently through their spasms, saying they looked just like the scales on Rainbow Fish from his favorite picture book. And they stay pretty.
Always pretty, but never functional.
(Or, sometimes there are winged and Jake is a winged who can't use his wings).
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Humble yourself before Him and you shall be saved.
Eddie can feel his eyes drooping, no matter how hard he tries to keep them peeled. He is lying down, after all, and he can’t do a damn thing about the life of him pooling by the dusty flooring.
He asks to be known for the very first time, and he asks for more time.
In the name of the father, the son, and the holy spirit,
amen.
Searing pain splits him open from within, and Eddie screams himself hoarse.
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With his best friend inside him and life bleeding out of his thigh, Eddie learns what it's like to be seen.
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All my poems, posted pretty much in chronological order of when they were written.
I'm not expecting much traffic for this work, just wanted to have them all in one easily-accessible place for my own sake.
I bear my soul in this poems: if no one reads them that's fine with me!PLEASE PAY ATTENTION TO THE TAGS FOR POSSIBLE TRIGGERS.
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no stranger to the world (no stranger to the wind) by rogersguitar
Fandoms: Rent - Larson, Rent (2005)
26 Jun 2025
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The spring of 1991 is one of cautious optimism, of recovery and growth
A year, told through the passing of the seasons.
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- Part 11 of Rent oneshots
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As you may know 1970’s was a ripe time for all sorts of cults. Some about God, some about Sex and some about Murder…
So it seemed only natural to write a story in which Armand is still a cult leader in the 70’s, only now his coven consists of disillusioned hippies quite in love with that 'easeful death' thing.Daniel is a broke journalist who decides to check this cult out just ‘cause he has nothing else to do and can get a story out of it.
And of course he’s far too clever to fall for that type of thing himself...This is a story about the perils of addiction, curiosity and longing.
We have 1970's trinkets, supermarket music and swimming pools filled with blood + BDSM attics, desert diners and writing advice as a torture method.
Not to mention Armand power-bottoming Daniel's soul out.
Check out the moodboard for the fic: https://pin.it/5lLiN0MUB
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indifference by i_loved_you
Fandoms: Spider-Man - All Media Types, Spider-Man (Movies - Raimi), Spider-Man (Tom Holland Movies)
25 Jun 2025
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There was a certain… Indifference that Peter Parker carried with him. Every moment of his life–every heartbreak, kiss, death, celebration–washed over Peter without garnering much of a reaction. There was an emptiness in his sad eyes. An indifference.
It wasn’t that Peter Parker didn’t or couldn’t love, or that he couldn’t feel. He could. He did! He felt everything. There was a barrier: a waterfall that lay between Peter Parker and Peter Parker’s feelings. Peter Parker sat behind the waterfall, let the stream of his emotions wash over the rocks in front of him. He saw them. He acknowledged them. He didn’t dare dive in. -
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In the dazzling world of ice dance, Jinu and Rumi were once inseparable, their childhood partnership blessed with uncanny grace and an unbreakable bond. But when tragedy struck, Jinu was forced under his grandfather Gwi-Ma's tyrannical control. Obsessed with "pure" talent, Gwi-Ma ruthlessly tore them apart, deeming Rumi's unique strength "impure."
A decade later, they're fierce rivals on the global circuit, their cold glances masking a past that still binds them. As the Grand Prix Final looms, Gwi-Ma's manipulation peaks, pushing Jinu to a desperate gamble with redemptive sacrifice on the ice, proving that some promises, even if broken, can still define a destiny.
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“Does it hurt?” Sieun asks.
“Should it?”
Sieun leans back, hands propping himself up, fingers weaving through the grass. All around them, small flowers spring from the ground, with whisper-thin yellow petals, delicate as tissue paper, circling orange centres.
“Let’s not think about it,” he says.
And if Sieun isn’t worried, that’s enough for Suho.
“Okay, let’s talk about something else.”
While Suho recovers, he dreams.
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When The Doctor is as far away from them as the world is from a mechanical moon adrift in the interplanetary space; a pale blue dot, they talk.
The rift between two neurons is only small enough for a molecule to fly from one end to the next. The bond between two segments is still defined by a distance, and it is the width of a "goodbye".
Science says that nothing ever touches. They find that it proves to be true.
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a small study of the segments, and the segments' study of atomic forces, language, their origins and relationships.Series
- Part 4 of give this man (dottore) my trauma
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AC/DC taught Anthony Edward Stark how to fly.
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burning a poetry handbook into ashes by crowleyscardigan
Fandoms: A Poetry Handbook - Mary Oliver, Original Work
22 Jun 2025
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Because sometimes, the soft animal of your body wants to wallow in muddy cliches.
aka I read some poetry advice and decided to do exactly what it told me not to do.
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It was a thickened, reddish tattle that cut down from her brow to her cheek, reminding her that she'd never be able to fully heal, an embiggened blemish that told everybody around her that she was, fundamentally and irrecoverably, scarred.
As there are phases of grief, there are phases of healing, too. 'Least, there are for scars, anyway. Pearl's hurt goes through hemostasis, inflammation, and proliferation. Along the way, she tries to identify what type of scar her trauma'll leave behind, along with if it'll ever heal enough to reach maturation.
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Just a patchwork poem.
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to snap the sinew (I want to get within you) by justaparsley (timefliessbye)
Fandoms: Block Tales (Roblox)
20 Jun 2025
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Greed. Solitude. Fear. Hate.
Treasure. Company. Anticipation. Death.
You agreed to assist with their avarice. You teamed up with them and traversed those dusty halls together. You stood on that mountain, watching, waiting, for the gods of old to arise.
And when one did, you loathed it. Despised its voice, detested its birth, reviled the way it looked and the words it spoke.
You killed your Greed. Cleaved Solitude in half. Eliminated your Fear. But you couldn’t bring yourself to wash off the red that stains your hands.
And now? Now it wants out.
So let your pain flow.
Let the darkness rise.
At the end of the day, night will always come.
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Charlie Morningstar holds a fundraising raffle for the Hazbin Hotel with an extra special Grand Prize- a dazzling date with the Radio Demon! Alastor receives more than he bargained for, however, when Vox strolls into the hotel with a dastardly grin and reel of raffle tickets. It's dinner for two aboard the RMS Titanic’s unsunken corpse!
TW: Forced date, some light unwanted touches
Past Tense, Third Person ObjectiveHumor and Angst
Happy Very Late/ Early Next Birthday AngelVan! (It was in October, oops)
*Fanarts at the end of final chapter :D*
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Author's interpretation of the events that lead to a permanent change in Twotime's life!
Might bc ooc, I'm not sure how to write Azure with what little we know about him. Azurewrath us called Azure in the fic!!!
[[DISCONTINUED]] FOR NOW I might change my mind but as of rn it won't be getting another chapter.
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“Let’s face it, this is not the worst thing you’ve caught me doing.”
Flash Fiction Friday - [#FFF 299 Stranger Than Fiction] -- Fandom Free Bingo Gingerbread Edition: A2 - “I can’t believe you!
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As Nickel goes towards TB, Tennis Ball gets too high up.
Will he get back down?- Language:
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